In Rules for a Flat World, Hadfield argues that although the world is becoming increasingly connected and faster paced due to leaps in technological innovation, the prevailing legal systems —established by governments and ...

Hadfield’sRules for a Flat World describes how today’s legal infrastructure harms people globally who live in the “Bottom of the Pyramid” (BoP). People who pass through the Kino Border Initiative on the U.S.-Mexico border ...

Rural communities – as well as other marginalized communities – see their access to legal infrastructure declining, so much so that they feel disconnected from the rule of law. Current complex law and legal infrastructure ...

In Rules for a Flat World, Hadfield focuses on law as created by and comprised of primarily centralized legal institutions. Current insights into law, however, highlight a complexity behind the social movements that cause ...

Remarks adapted from presentation: Disrupting Law, Reclaiming Justice, a Conversation on Gillian Hadfield’s Rule for a Flat World on October 8, 2018 at Creighton University. Despite the advancement in the ADR movement, ...

In Rules for a Flat World, Hadfield delivers a paradigm-shifting wakeup call about law coming up short in today’s world and proposes creating markets for legal rules to enable the development of broad-based legal infrastructure ...

Professor Gillian Hadfield’s astute Rules for a Flat Worldproposes a private market solution to rule-making because the current legislative or regulatory framework no longer meets the needs of a fast-paced digital economy. ...

In her provocative book Rules for a Flat World, Professor Gillian Hadfield makes the important point that our ossified legal system does not meet the needs of our dynamic society. And she rightly notes that legal education ...

This essay is focused on the role which law schools might play in “reinventing” the law student for a more robust role in an increasingly complex global economy. The case is presented for law schools to embrace and promote ...